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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of angle of impact, neck stiffness, and impact location on measures of shear forces during a fall ground head collision to better understand the protective ability of a hockey helmet. Eighteen impacts at different velocities were conducted on 5 helmet impact locations, under 3 neck stiffness settings and 2 impact angles. Shear forces were measured for a total of 540 helmet impacts. A three way factorial ANOVA revealed a significant three-way interaction effect between impact location, neck stiffness and angle of impact on shear force measures, F(8, 510)= 5.550, p